A funny taste in my mouth, and a tryyped out head zone.

I just got home from an MRI. A scan of my head/neck/top o' my bod to see why the heck I haven't seen much improvement since the car accident last summer.

While waiting oh so patiently to go to my appointment this late evening, I had visions of a massive Kubrick 2001 meditation zone. It was definitely NOT THAT on the outside, but the inner zone was better than expected. It was tiny-- I have no idea how they get anyone bigger than me into the tube-- so I HAD to keep my eyes closed to keep my claustrophobia in check. I was in for a total of 30 minutes. The scans were done in lengths of 1, 3, or 5 minutes. Each scan started with a 'clap track', basically, which was totally amusing. And then EPIC SOUNDS began. I know a handful of total dujas that could have made the best songs ever out of these sounds, if they could only get a mic in there. It would start with short tones, one above my head, and then one by my right ear, and then one from the vicinity of my left shoulder blade, etc. Then, the beats would come. There were at least three layers of beats at any given moment, some muffled as if from the outside of the machine, some sounding like the surface of the machine was knocked and also some very close internal tiny taps. Literally layers. On some of the scans, a very large and loud sound would surround me- sometimes like a weather warning speaker, or a riding lawnmower, and then smaller sounds that seemed like the machine breathing would come in underneath. The big sounds would drone on for the length of the scan, and I would get lost in the layers, like some hardcore ambient masterpiece.

Nothing that I'm saying even comes close, sadly.
I WAS INSIDE THE MACHINE. I COULD FEEL THE SOUNDS IN MY BODY. IT WAS SOOOO LOUD. DEEP DEEP TRYYPS. I felt so heavy and droned when they pulled me out of there. I really liked it a lot. Best show I've been to in awhile.

See http://news-reader.org/article.php?group=sci.med.radiology.interventional&post_nr=2041 to find out a little bit about where the sounds come from...